My “if only” for today is: If only I had learned to double tongue when my brain was able to learn things like that.

Okay, maybe I can still learn, but so far it’s not clicking in, and I have to warn those of you who, like me, were blessed with a fast tongue that, along with all the other ways in which our bodies slow down as we age, our tongues slow down too!. Pardon me for yelling there, but I’m one frustrated oboist at the moment. And dear Zoltán Kodály was sure a mean old guy to give us those crazy fast passages. Really now.

Listen to 2:07 in to this (below) … the oboes are supposed to tongue that. I’m so thankful that at least one flute is playing there as well. Whew! AND it’s only 2 seconds of fear. Still, I want to play the darn thing. So the metronome and I are incredibly well acquainted, as you might imagine!

For something different, get a load of this group … playing by memory, no less. (But no oboes!)

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I received this from the Janet Archibald. Hope some of you can make it (I’m working then, so can’t get there.)

Hi Everyone,
The days are getting shorter, the weather cooler and the holidays fast approaching, which means it’s also time for another Lowell Trio concert at the wonderful music club, Armando’s , 707 Marina Vista ave., in downtown Martinez!
Please join Janet Popesco Archibald, oboe & English Horn, Emil Miland, cello, & pianist Margaret Fondbertasse on Sunday December 18 , 4pm for our Winters’ Solstice program, featuring warm and wonderful music by composers both familiar and new.
Included are works by J. S. Bach, Manuel DeFalla and Michael Head & Margaret’s popular ‘guess the composer’ segment featuring yet another famous rock star’s attempt at composing a Classical style piece!
We hope to see you there,
Happy Holidays from the Lowell Trio!